Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Recycled gift bag

I needed some gift packaging for the cards I made for my pastor's wife (see this post for details) and none of the templates I had seemed to fit the bill. But, I have used the clear boxes that the Papertrey Ink stamps come in (hmmm . . . maybe that is a good reason to buy some more) as gift "bags" before and it seemed to be a good idea this time, too. It's kind of fun because the gift becomes part of the packaging. And it's reusing something that would otherwise be thrown away. I already had the card made (see this post), so I decided to coordinate the packaging with both the card and the cards (confusing I know). I stamped the flower cluster and then stamped it again and cut it out to create a mask so I could stamp the pumpkin below the cluster and make it look like a flower arrangement in the pumpkin or flower decorations on a pumpkin. Anyway, I think it came out super cute and was a brilliant way to tie the two cards together.